WebSphere® InterChange Server (ICS) V4.3 is a key component of the WebSphere Business Integration
Server product suite for medium and large enterprises. It addresses the need for efficiency and
flexibility in automating and synchronizing business activities executed across multiple
applications as business processes.

WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.3 is also included in this release providing design tools,
system management, and monitoring capabilities for WebSphere ICS.

The IBM Business Integration product portfolio provides the key
capabilities needed for transforming business processes:

Model business functions and processes

Transform applications, processes, and data

Integrate islands of applications, processes, and information

Interact with resources anytime and anywhere

Manage performance against business objectives

Accelerate implementation of intelligent processes

WebSphere ICS V4.3 delivers on the integration capability by providing
event-driven business process automation and application synchronization
in the WebSphere Business Integration Server product.

ICS is taken to market as a component of WebSphere Business Integration
Server. It addresses the need for efficiency and flexibility in
automating and synchronizing business activities executed across multiple
applications as business processes.

Business processes, in part or in whole, executed by the ICS are called
collaborations. Collaboration templates are created and customized
visually using the Process Designer and related tools in the WebSphere
Business Integration Toolset. Collaboration object instances are
compiled automatically from the templates for deployment to the ICS
runtime. No Java programming is required, though the ability to
integrate custom written Java activities is available.

Cross-industry and industry-specific collaboration groups are available
separately from ICS as WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations.
For more information on value add collaboration groups visit

Collaborations process events from external business applications. An
event is essentially a combination of a business object and an action
verb (such as, Create, Update, Delete) transferred as messages between
the application and the ICS server.

The applications are connected primarily through adapter connectors. A
portfolio of pre-built adapters to leading enterprise business
applications is available to accelerate implementations marketed as
WebSphere Business Integration Adapters. An optional Adapter Development
Kit (ADK) can also accelerate custom adapter development by taking
advantage of the Adapter Framework runtime services used by the pre-built
adapter solutions.

For more information on value-add adapters supported for ICS users, visit

Internet-based applications may also be connected directly to the ICS
through the creation of client applications that use the Server Access
Interface API. A separate license authorization is required to connect a
CORBA application (WebSphere ICS Access) or an EJB application server
(WebSphere ICS Access for Enterprise JavaBeans).

WebSphere ICS V4.3 runtime and tools are delivered on the same media, but
are sold separately as:

WebSphere ICS V4.3

WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.3

WebSphere MQ V5.3.0.2 and DB2 Universal Database® Enterprise Server
Edition V8.1 are also included, however, use is restricted to WebSphere
ICS V4.3 and WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.3. Full licenses
must be separately acquired for any purpose other than specified in the
license.

The WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Framework V2.6 is required to
support WebSphere ICS V4.3 connectivity as well as new features such as
role-based access. WebSphere ICS V4.3 and WebSphere Business Integration
Toolset V4.3 have been upgraded internally to support the Java Developer
Kit (JDK) 1.4.2 in this release. Previous releases supported JDK 1.3.

WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Framework V2.6 supports WebSphere
Business Integration Adapters delivered in the September 2004,
adapter release as well as adapters delivered in the June 2004, and
December 2003, releases. For more information about adapter
framework compatibility, refer to the
Software requirements
section.

WebSphere ICS ships the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for e-Mail V2.7 as an integral
notification mechanism for use by all collaborations. A separate license (either per establishment
or per instance) must be acquired to use the advanced features of this adapter (such as sending file
attachments) as part of a business process solution.

New with the WebSphere ICS V4.3 release is entitlement to use the WebSphere Business Integration
Adapter components listed below for the purposes of integrating the ICS with the Message Broker and
MQ Workflow components, and providing Web Services, WebSphere MQ, and JMS adapter support for ICS:

Note:
In previous releases, this entitlement was made available only to the customers of WebSphere
Business Integration Server. The change benefits WebSphere ICS only customers wishing to use Web
Services, JMS, or WebSphere MQ connectivity. ICS only customers also now benefit from the
restricted use authorization of DB2.

Per-establishment authorizations are provided for WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Framework
and WebSphere Business Integration Data Handler for XML. Multiple instances of these may be used at
one location to implement a WebSphere Business Integration solution featuring WebSphere ICS.

Per-application instance authorizations are included for each adapter. They may each be used once
only to provide a connection between one instance of a user's application and the ICS as part of the
WebSphere Business Integration Server solution.

It is highly recommended that all customers acquire separate establishment authorizations for the
WebSphere MQ, JMS, and Web Services adapters, especially those with multiple ICS installations.

The focus for the V4.3 release is to deliver support for new operating systems, and address specific
reliability, availability, and scalability enhancements requested by customers, together with
significant performance and security improvements.

For Microsoft Windows platform users, runtime support for Windows 2003 is added.

Note:
WebSphere Business Integration Toolset continues to be supported on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
only.

For Sun Solaris platform users, Solaris 9 (2.9) is now supported, in addition to Solaris 2.8.
Solaris 2.7 is no longer supported.

New with this release is support for the Linux operating system running on Intel 32-bit architecture
platforms. The ICS now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and SUSE LINUX 8.1.

The following reliability, availability, and serviceability enhancements have been made to WebSphere
ICS in this release. For details, refer to the
Additional information
section.

Java 1.4.2

Dynamic deployment

Database connection retries

Dynamic service calls

Support for large business objects

JMS transport optimizations

Event sequencing

Flow management

Web-based Failed Event Manager

Collaboration API for failed flows

SNMP agent

The following security enhancements have been made in this release. For details, refer to the
Additional information
section.

Role-based access

Role-based access clients

Privacy/integrity

Access audit log

New in WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.3

The focus of this release is on productivity enhancements together with Eclipse Workbench 2.1
compatibility with WebSphere Studio AD/IE V5.1 and V5.1.1.

Activity Editor

Activity Editor is the component used by both Map Designer and Process Designer tools for creating
custom mapping transformations and actions for collaboration templates. Various fixes and
enhancements have been made including import/export of activity definitions and contextual labeling
of custom function blocks. The properties of custom function blocks can now be configured directly
from the Map Designer tool.

Map Designer

With today's enterprise business applications, business objects can consist of hundreds of
attributes. With such large business objects, it is very time-consuming and repetitive to create
mapping files. To improve usability, the Map Designer has been enhanced with auto-mapping features.
Auto-mapping can be set to ignore upper/lower case differences, ignore mismatched data types, and
map by prefix or suffix.

A reverse mapping capability is added to speed up the creation of target maps from source maps. For
example, a "Split" becomes a "Join" and a "Join" becomes a "Split" while transformations that cannot
be automated, are listed as warnings and remain unchanged. When the user clicks on the Reverse Map
menu item, a dialog box will show asking for the name to be given to the reverse map.

Synonym mapping is also added in this release. The term applies to mapping multiple, alternative,
source element names to a single target element name. An example might be Customer_ID | Account_ID
=> NEW_CUSTOMER_ID.

Integrated Test Environment (ITE)

The ITE perspective now supports the connection to any ICS started as a test server, local or
remote, for unit testing of collaboration processes. The ICS itself can be hosted on a UNIX®
platform. This removes the restriction of installing an ICS on each developer's workstation to use
the ITE. The requirement that only one client is allowed to be testing against an ICS test server
at any given time, remains to ensure the integrity of the tests.

Connector Configurator

A short description column is added to standard properties for consistency with the configuration
properties sheet. A hot button capability is provided to display extended help files.

Collaboration API for failed flows

A programming interface is provided to support custom administration solutions for failed flows
outside of ICS. This will provide the capability to save failed events with the collaboration's
subscribed event type, and to retrieve, delete, and resubmit failed events. For example, when
iterating through the child business objects in a batch event, the API allows customers to save
individual failed flows and manage these failed records in user collaborations. Saving failed
events if they are delivered through the Server Access Interface (WebSphere Server InterChange
Access) is not supported.

Deployment Configuration Tool

New to this release is the ability to configure the parameters of objects just prior to their
deployment to an ICS, overriding values set at design time. This can speed up deployment
considerably where the same objects are deployed to multiple ICS runtimes, which are particularly
useful for test and deployment servers. The deployment configuration tool, selectable from the
System Manager, is a visual tool that allows selection of the target ICS, viewing and selection of
objects to be deployed, display of parameter names, and the setting of values. It can configure
properties for connectors, collaborations, maps, relationships, and most database connection
properties. Properties and values can be assigned to more than one ICS and deleting a property from
one server does not impact the others. The System Manager applies these runtime parameters when
deploying to the target ICS.

Compile/Deploy Progress Indicator

The progress of collaboration object creation and deployment activities are now cached by the ICS
and displayed in a visual progress indicator from the System Manager.

Collaboration deployment performance

To improve performance when deploying processes, the ability to accept pre-compiled collaboration
instances and maps is supported. The import/export facilities also recognize the Java class files
added to the JAR file used for deployment, import, and export.

Installer  Collaborations

The pre-built WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations previously included with ICS, but
licensed separately, have been removed from the WebSphere ICS packaging in this release. The
installer has been updated to reflect this.

Collaborations are now available packaged as collaboration groups and are made available via
electronic download only. The Collaboration Foundation templates remain packaged with WebSphere
Business Integration Toolset for educational and development purposes only. A separate
authorization is required to deploy custom collaborations based on the Collaboration Foundation.

XML Parser replacement

The XML parsing functionality for internal use by the tools has previously been provided by the
libraries developed under the Apache Software Foundation's Xerces Project. These libraries have
been replaced in this release with IBM's own library implementation for XML parsing, namely XML4J
and XML4C.

What it does

ICS addresses the need for data integrity in automating and synchronizing business activities
executed across multiple applications as business processes. It provides a state full business
object model that enables business processes to execute independently of the applications to which
they ultimately connect. It provides reusability of both process templates (collaborations) and the
application adapters that connect ICS with the applications. ICS supports a compensation model
rather than an XA model, complementing the MQ Workflow and Message Broker servers, by providing
exception management for business applications that do not support XA, and business processes that
extend outside the enterprise, which may be interrupted or long-lived. The ICS mapping (mediation)
services include static, syntactical mapping as well as dynamic, semantic mapping of relationships
between business objects described differently within each application. A work-in-progress service
ensures key information of each application participating in a process is persistent during the
processing of business events for recovery purposes. ICS is multithreaded, and can handle multiple
processes and multiple instances of the same process concurrently. Sophisticated features to manage
the ICS resources under load without manual intervention include flow governing and collaboration
blocking.

Accessibility by people with disabilities

This offering does not fully support use by people with disabilities.

However, this offering is largely compatible with the accessibility features included with the
supported operating systems.

WebSphere ICS addresses the need for efficiency and flexibility in automating and synchronizing
business activities executed across multiple applications located both locally and remote,
internally and in partner organizations.

WebSphere Business Integration Server
: WebSphere ICS, together with WebSphere MQ Workflow and WebSphere Business Integration Message
Broker, is positioned as a core component of the WebSphere Business Integration Server offering.
WebSphere Business Integration Server is positioned as the lead offering providing business process
integration capabilities as part of the IBM Business Integration reference architecture.

WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation:
Buyers seeking to purchase a process choreography solution for the creation of composite,
component-based applications, with a comprehensive Java integrated development environment matched
with a J2EE standard runtime environment, should consider WebSphere Business Integration Server
Foundation and WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition tooling as an alternative
to WebSphere ICS.

WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Plus:
Buyers in smaller, medium-sized businesses seeking a competitive price point to automate a business
process with one or two business applications (with less need for scalability to an enterprise
model), may consider WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Plus as an alternative.

The following reliability, availability and serviceability enhancements, and security enhancements
have been made to ICS in this release.

Reliability, availability, and serviceability

Java 1.4.2

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Java Development Kit (JDK) versions for ICS, Adapter
Framework, and WBI Toolset has been upgraded from V1.3.1 to V1.4.2 with this release. This has
contributed to the overall performance improvements.

Dynamic deployment

The requirement to stop the ICS before adding or removing an adapter connector or updating the
collaboration and business objects incurs an overhead, especially the more ICSs you manage. The
need to maintain consistency of the cross-dependencies in a live server takes priority but, with
this release, additional "hot deployment" scenarios are made available for adapter connections,
collaborations, business objects, and maps to avoid stopping an ICS to make changes.

Database connection retries

In this release, ICS will attempt to establish database connections when these connections are
broken due to a database shutdown or a temporary network failure. For work-in-progress
transactions, ICS may be able to re-execute a failed transaction. The number of retries and the
time interval between retries is configurable. This feature allows the automatic recovery from a
few scenarios where previously the ICS would require a reboot.

Dynamic service calls

Dynamic service calls provide a mechanism for collaboration developers to make service requests to
any collaboration or connector at runtime without having to bind explicitly to a destination port.
In prior versions of ICS, the choice of a destination connector or collaboration to which a service
request is made had to be determined at compile time in a static manner. In V4.3, dynamic service
calls can be enabled using a new API that is available to collaboration developers. Dynamic service
calls are synchronous in nature.

Support for large business objects

The goal of this enhancement is to increase the physical size of business objects passed through the
ICS without causing memory exhaustion issues. A large business object is usually one that has a
large hierarchy of attributes, or is a wrapper object for multiple business objects for batch
processing.

JMS transport optimizations

Several enhancements are provided to improve event handling performance and avoid bottlenecks in
processing events and event recovery at the ICS connector controller interface when the JMS
transport is selected. Some of these enhancements are already implemented for the WebSphere MQ
interface in previous 4.2 releases. An optimized JMS service will be selectable, which will deliver
improvements when business objects are reasonably large, and the database overheads of caching them
are higher. Optimizations also include caching improvements, batching non-critical activities, and
synchronizing critical sections and expensive operations in parallel.

Event sequencing

The ability to engage or disengage the event sequencing service within ICS has been added. Where
event sequencing is not critical to a process, throughput can be enhanced if this feature is
disabled.

Flow management

A new event status of USER_GENERATED has been added to distinguish between saved failed events and
other events. A saved failed event can subsequently be deleted or resubmitted. The status of a
saved failed event will transform from USER_GENERATED to USER_GENERATED_RESUBMITTED_INPROGRESS when
it is resubmitted to the ICS, and will transform back to USER_GENERATED again in case of repeat of a
failure. The Flow Manager tool has been enhanced to display these new status messages.

Web-based Failed Event Manager

This new browser-based tool provides the same functions as Flow Manager. It supports the new event
status (USER_GENERATED) and provides the ability to retrieve, resubmit, and delete failed events.

Collaboration API for failed flows

A programming interface is provided to support custom administration solutions for failed flows
outside of ICS. This will provide the capability to save failed events with the collaboration's
subscribed event type, and to retrieve, delete, and resubmit failed events. For example, when
iterating through the child business objects in a batch event, the API allows customers to save
individual failed flows and manage these failed records in user collaborations. Saving failed
events delivered through the Server Access Interface (WebSphere InterChange Access) is not supported
in this release.

SNMP agent

In this release, the SNMP stack underpinning the ICS SNMP agent, previously provided by a
third-party supplier, is replaced with an SNMP protocol stack provided by Tivoli®. The SNMP agent
does not change at the user level. A new MIB is provided for loading into the customer's chosen
enterprise management console (such as Tivoli TME®).

Security enhancements

Role-based access

A role-based authentication service is provided in this release. This can be switched on and off by
the system administrator for backwards compatibility when migrating from an earlier release. Roles
and their privileges are set up by the administrator. When role-based access is turned on, all
permissions/access checks will be operational. Roles and privileges are stored in the ICS
repository. A Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) V3 interface is also provided to enable
user names and passwords to be managed and authenticated from an external directory service that
supports LDAP.

Role-based access clients

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters configured to use MQ or IIOP as transport and IIOP clients
will be authenticated. By default, adapters using MQ or IIOP as the delivery transport will use the
guest identity to login.

Authentication for Internet-based client applications connecting via the Server Access Interface
(SAI) will be enforced in this release. An API call is added for the client call to be
authenticated. Also for SAI clients, the user ID is made available to the collaboration. A
collaboration can now be designed to check if the caller is in a specific role and to customize the
business process based on caller identity.

Privacy/integrity

The ability to encrypt the content of messages sent by the ICS is provided in this release as a
privacy option. This can be for all messages including system messages or for an individual
business object. The ability to add a digital signature is also provided.

Access audit log

When providing role-based access, the ability to audit who logs in under which role is desirable to
ensure no accidental or deliberate breaches of the security policy have occurred. The ability to
create an audit log is provided in this release. The administrator can configure where the audit
log files will be created by ICS. This should be secured from unauthorized viewing or editing using
the operating system capabilities. New audit files can be created on a daily, weekly, or monthly
basis, as required, to quickly locate the period of interest. The maximum file size can also be
set. When it is exceeded, it triggers a new file to be created. A fixed file naming format allows
for 999 files per day, week, or month.

Processor: An IBM xSeries® and Intel-based system (or equivalent) with a
minimum processor speed of 1 GHz

RAM: 512 MB

Disk space: 40 GB

Windows environment (WebSphere Business Integration Toolset)

Processor: An xSeries and Intel-based system (or equivalent) with a
minimum processor speed of 1 GHz

RAM: 512 MB

Disk space: 10 GB

AIX® environment (WebSphere ICS)

Processor: An IBM pSeries® or RS/6000® system with either a uniprocessor
or symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) and a minimum processor speed of 375
MHz

RAM: 512 MB

Disk space: 40 GB

Solaris environment (WebSphere ICS)

Processor: A Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC processor system with a minimum
processor speed of 450 MHz

RAM: 512 MB

Disk space: 40 GB

HP-UX environment (WebSphere ICS)

Processor: A Hewlett-Packard HP-9000 PA-RISC processor system with a
minimum processor speed of 440 MHz

RAM: 512 MB

Disk space: 40 GB

Linux environment (WebSphere ICS)

Processor: An xSeries and Intel-based system (or equivalent) with a
minimum processor speed of 1 GHz

RAM: 512 MB

Disk space: 40 GB

Software requirements

For more details, refer to the System Installation Guide for Windows and the System Installation
Guide for UNIX.

The WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations announced in December 2003, support WebSphere
ICS V4.3. For more information, refer to Software Announcement
203-329
, dated December 9, 2003 (WebSphere Business Integration Collaborations Restructuring).

Scripts that assist with configuring WebSphere ICS in High Availability (HA) environments are
available as unsupported Category 2 SupportPacs at the following location:

Source Code Control: One of the following is required for optional System
Manager source code control only:

Rational® ClearCase® LT 4.2

Concurrent Version System (CVS) 1.11

Integrated Test Environment: A separate installation of WebSphere ICS is
required for this feature. A separate instance of the database is also
required and is used as the ICS repository dedicated for testing purposes
only.

Note:
WebSphere Business Integration Toolset may also be installed and used in
a WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition 5.1 or 5.1.1
environment.

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters  September 2004, release

The operating system requirements described in this section apply to all
of the following WebSphere Business Integration Adapter products included
with this offering (unless otherwise noted):

WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Framework V2.6 supports WebSphere
Business Integration Adapters delivered in the September 2004,
June 2004, and December 2003, releases. Enhancements to
Framework V2.6 require modifications to the startup scripts for many of
the adapters in the June 2004, and December 2003, releases.

New startup scripts and instructions for updating your existing adapters
for Framework V2.6 compatibility will be provided in a migration guide
and in a WebSphere Business Integration technote within 30 days of
product availability.

Planning information

For planning information, refer to the WebSphere ICS System Installation Guide for Windows and the
WebSphere ICS System Installation Guide for UNIX at

Customer responsibilities:
It is strongly recommended that WebSphere Business Integration
Software Services or Business Partners be used to assist in the
installation, design, implementation, and maintenance of the WebSphere
ICS solution.

To implement a WebSphere ICS solution, the following skills are required:

Some SQL experience and basic understanding of relational databases and
SQL statements, triggers, and stored procedures.

Thorough understanding of specific packaged applications or client legacy
applications to be managed.

Thorough understanding of the WebSphere ICS solution.

Customers should take full advantage of the educational program provided
for the WebSphere ICS solution.

Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and
Technical Support, is included in the Passport Advantage Agreement.
Installation and technical support is provided by the Software
Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage
Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity, with voice
and electronic access into IBM support organizations.

Packaging:
This is a Passport Advantage offering only. WebSphere ICS V4.3 and
WebSphere Business Integration Toolset V4.3 are distributed via
electronic download and a single physical media pack. The WebSphere ICS
media is used to distribute the software for both of these products.
Support for all specified operating systems and languages are included.

Consulting and services

IBM Software Services for WebSphere (ISSW) Business Integration Services is adept at putting the
right team together whether it be with customer personnel, with IBM Global Services, or with the
Customer's choice of global systems integrator. ISSW Business Integration Services brings product,
technology, and best-practices expertise that can make any implementation team more effective. As
specialists in WebSphere Business Integration, we have the collective experience of several hundred
live customer implementations and hundreds of consultants globally to help ensure our success.

ISSW Business Integration Services professionals complement the project delivery team by providing
deep insight into product technology and architecture as well as linkages back to the software
development organization. ISSW Business Integration Services are tailored to each individual
customer's needs. They range from a full outsourced deployment to focused specialist service
packages that enable a project team or customer to address specific challenges.

ISSW Business Integration Services can also assist customers with upgrading from earlier versions of
WebSphere Business Integration products. Any migration of applications involves proper planning,
estimation, and timed execution. ISSW Business Integration Services can assist by precisely
assessing and evaluating the client's existing infrastructure and support system. ISSW Business
Integration Services has extensive, proven experience in successful product migrations.

ISSW Business Integration Services consultants:

Help to make "WebSphere products successful."

Minimize our clients' migration risks. Years of field experiences are gathered into a migration
services program to help customers successfully migrate.

Select WebSphere Business Integration to see the available service
offerings or contact your ISSW sales specialist for more information on
all our services offerings. Your ISSW sales specialist's name may be
found at

This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.

Agreement:
IBM International Program License Agreement. Proofs of Entitlement (PoE) are required for all
authorized use.

Part number products only, offered outside of Passport Advantage, where applicable, are license only
and do not include Software Maintenance.

This software license includes Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription
and Technical Support.

License information form numbers

Program
Program name number Form number
WebSphere 5724-I78 L-MKOL-62MK8T
InterChange
Server
WebSphere 5724-I77 L-MKOL-62MK8T
Business
Integration
Toolset

Limited warranty applies:
Yes

Warranty:
This program has warranty for a minimum of one year from acquisition from IBM or authorized IBM
Business Partner. The warranty provided to the customer, for at least one year from acquisition, is
access to databases (read Web sites) for program information and FAQs, including any known fixes to
defects, which the customer can download or obtain otherwise and install at leisure.

Program technical support:
Technical support of a program product will be available for a minimum of three years from the
general availability date, as long as your Software Maintenance is in effect. This technical
support allows you to obtain assistance (via telephone or electronic means) from IBM for
product-specific, task-oriented questions regarding the installation and operation of the program
product. Software Maintenance also provides you with access to updates, releases, and versions of
the program. Customers will be notified, via announcement letter, of discontinuance of support with
12 months' notice. If you require additional technical support from IBM, including an extension of
support beyond the discontinuance date, contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner.
This extension may be available for a fee.

Money-back guarantee:
If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the program, return it
within 30 days from the invoice date, to the party (either IBM or its
reseller) from whom you acquired it, for a refund. This applies only to
your first acquisition of the program.

Copy and use on home/portable computer

Copy and use on
home/portable
Product name computer?
WebSphere InterChange Server No
WebSphere Business No
Integration Toolset

Volume orders (IVO):
No

Passport Advantage applies:
Yes and through the Passport Advantage Web site at

The license for these offerings contains numerous usage restrictions.
Important excerpts from the Program Unique Terms section of the License
Information are included below. For complete details on license
information and usage restrictions, refer to

Charges for authorized use of WebSphere ICS (WICS) are based on PLUs.
Unless stated otherwise in writing by IBM, you must acquire PLUs for each
machine on which WICS is installed according to the following terms and
conditions:

You must acquire one PLU for each Central Processing Unit (CPU) that is
used to run an instance of WICS. On a machine that supports the grouping
of CPUs into partitions, you must acquire one PLU for each CPU allocated
to each partition in which WICS is to be run. On a machine that supports
the dynamic allocation of CPUs to partitions (dynamic partitioning), you
must acquire, in advance, PLUs for the maximum number of CPUs to be
allocated to each partition in which WICS is to be run.

You must acquire separate PLUs for each unique instance of WICS that is
run on said machine.

WebSphere ICS includes a copy of WebSphere Business Integration Adapter
Framework, which you are only authorized to use in conjunction with your
licensed use of WICS. You are authorized to install and use an unlimited
number of copies of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Framework
under the terms and conditions for a single per-establishment
authorization as specified in the license agreement that accompanies the
WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Framework component.

WebSphere ICS includes a copy of WebSphere Business Integration Data
Handler for XML, which you are only authorized to use in conjunction with
your licensed use of WICS. You are authorized to install and use an
unlimited number of copies of the WebSphere Business Integration Data
Handler for XML under the terms and conditions for a single
per-establishment authorization as specified in the license agreement
that accompanies the WebSphere Business Integration Data Handler for XML
component.

WebSphere ICS includes a copy of the following WebSphere Business
Integration Adapters:

WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for WebSphere MQ

WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for WebSphere Business Integration
Message Broker

WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for WebSphere MQ Workflow

WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for JMS

WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Web Services

You are only authorized to use these adapters in conjunction with your
licensed use of WICS. You are authorized to install and use one copy of
each of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters listed above under
the terms and conditions for a single per-application-instance
authorization as specified in the license agreement that accompanies each
adapter. Each adapter may be installed and used on a separate machine.
You must acquire additional per-application-instance or establishment
authorizations that are separate from those acquired with WICS in order
to install and use additional copies of these adapters.

WebSphere ICS includes a copy of the WebSphere Business Integration
Adapter for e-Mail, which you are only authorized to use in conjunction
with your licensed use of WICS. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
in the license agreement that accompanies the WebSphere Business
Integration Adapter for e-Mail, you may use multiple instances of this
included copy of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for e-Mail
for system notification purposes only. You must acquire separate
per-application-instance or establishment authorizations for the
WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for e-Mail to support connectivity
to external applications for transmission of business data.

WebSphere ICS includes a copy of WebSphere MQ (messaging), which you are
only authorized to use in conjunction with your licensed use of WICS.

You may install and use a single instance of WebSphere MQ on any machine
that is covered by WICS PLU authorizations; and that has WICS installed;
and providing it is used for the sole purpose of communicating to and
from WICS.

Licensed users of a WebSphere Business Integration Adapter may install
and use a single instance of WebSphere MQ on a machine with the WebSphere
Business Integration Adapter for the sole purpose of communication to and
from WICS. Any other use is not permitted without a separate, full
WebSphere MQ license.

You may transfer the copy of WebSphere MQ included with WICS, but only:

To a person who at the same time takes over all the corresponding WICS
materials from you, and accepts all applicable license terms, including
these terms relating to WebSphere MQ
and

If you transfer all copies to such other person, and do not retain any
copies of such materials for your own or any other use

WebSphere ICS includes components of DB2 Universal Database (UDB). You
are authorized to install and use these DB2 components only in
association with your licensed use of WICS for the storage and management
of data used and generated by WICS, and not for other data management
purposes, except for the retrieval of data generated by WICS required for
monitoring and report generation functions performed outside of WICS.

Your use of the DB2 components is subject to the terms and conditions of
the UDB DB2 license agreement that accompanies the DB2 components except
as limited by the terms and conditions in this license. Contact your DB2
reseller if your need exceeds these terms to obtain a full DB2 UDB
program.

A WebSphere ICS Access authorization (formerly CrossWorlds® Access
Framework) is required to connect an application server to a licensed
WICS. You must acquire a separate authorization for each application
server to be connected to WICS through the Access interface.

A WebSphere ICS Access for Enterprise JavaBeans authorization (formerly
CrossWorlds Access Framework for Enterprise JavaBeans) is required to
connect one instance of an Enterprise JavaBeans application to a licensed
WICS through the Access for Enterprise JavaBeans interface. You must
acquire a separate authorization for each instance of an application
connected to WICS in this manner.

A WebSphere ICS Access for J2EE Connector Architecture authorization
(formerly CrossWorlds Resource Adapter for ICS and WebSphere Business
Integration Adapter for JCA Connector to ICS) is required to connect one
instance of an application to a licensed WICS through the use of the J2EE
Connector Architecture interface. You must acquire a separate
authorization for each instance of an application connected to WICS in
this manner.

WebSphere Business Integration Toolset Terms

A WebSphere Business Integration Toolset (WBI Toolset) concurrent user
authorization is required to install and use one copy of the WBI Toolset.
You must acquire a WBI Toolset concurrent user authorization for each
user to install and use a copy of WBI Toolset on one machine, or to
access and use a previously installed copy of the WBI Toolset that
resides on a separate machine and is shared with other users. A
concurrent user authorization must be acquired for each user to install
and use a dedicated copy of the WBI Toolset that is not shared with other
users. Concurrent user authorizations must also be acquired for the
maximum number of users that will access and use a shared copy of the WBI
Toolset simultaneously. You may only use the WBI Toolset software in
conjunction with a licensed WICS.

Although your use of the WBI Toolset requires a licensed WICS, a WBI
Toolset concurrent user authorization allows you to install one
additional copy of WICS, on the same machine as the WBI Toolset, for the
sole purpose of running the Integrated Test Environment.

When you use WBI Toolset to create a program, it embeds IBM licensed
software into your program. You may use the embedded IBM licensed
software only in conjunction with a licensed WICS.

For each WBI Toolset concurrent user authorization, you are allowed to
install one copy of the WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration
Foundation on the same machine as the WBI Toolset. You are allowed to
use this copy of WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration Foundation
solely to develop custom collaborations in conjunction with the
Collaboration Development Guide, for educational purposes only. You must
acquire a separate authorization for WebSphere Business Integration
Collaboration Foundation in order to deploy custom collaborations
generated using the WebSphere Business Integration Collaboration
Foundation.

Software maintenance applies:
Yes

Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and
Technical Support, is included in the Passport Advantage Agreement.
Installation and technical support is provided by the Software
Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage
Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity, with voice
and electronic access into IBM support organizations.

IBM includes one year of Software Maintenance with the initial license
acquisition of each program acquired. The initial period of Software
Maintenance can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option that is
available.

While your Software Maintenance is in effect: IBM provides you assistance
for your routine, short duration installation and usage (how-to)
questions; and code-related questions. IBM provides assistance via
telephone and, if available, electronic access, only to your information
systems (IS) technical support personnel during the normal business hours
(published prime shift hours) of your IBM support center. (This
assistance is not available to your end users.) IBM provides Severity 1
assistance 24 hours a day, every day of the year. For additional
details, consult your IBM Software Support Guide at

Software Maintenance does not include assistance for the design and
development of applications, your use of programs in other than their
specified operating environment, or failures caused by products for which
IBM is not responsible under this agreement.

For more information about the Passport Advantage Agreement, refer to
Software Announcement
201-202
, dated July 10, 2001, or visit the Passport Advantage Web site
at

On/Off capacity on demand

To be eligible for On/Off Capacity on Demand pricing, customers must be enabled for temporary
capacity on the corresponding hardware, and the required contract  Z125-6907, Amendment for
iSeries and pSeries Temporary Capacity On Demand  Software  must be signed prior to use.

The prices provided in this announcement are suggested retail prices for the U.S. only and are
provided for your information only. Dealer prices may vary, and prices may also vary by country.
Prices are subject to change without notice. For additional information and current prices, contact
your local IBM representative.

Passport Advantage

For Passport Advantage information and charges, contact your IBM representative or authorized IBM
Business Partner. Additional information is also available at

To order, contact the Americas Call Centers, your local IBM
representative, or your IBM Business Partner.

To identify your local IBM Business Partner or IBM representative, call
800-IBM-4YOU (426-4968).

IBM Global Financing

IBM Global Financing offers competitive financing to credit-qualified customers to assist them in
acquiring IT solutions. Offerings include financing for IT acquisition, including hardware,
software, and services, both from IBM and other manufacturers or vendors. Offerings (for all
customer segments: small, medium, and large enterprise), rates, terms, and availability can vary by
country. Contact your local IBM Global Financing organization or visit

IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit LLC in the
United States and other IBM subsidiaries and divisions worldwide to
qualified commercial and government customers. Rates are based on a
customer's credit rating, financing terms, offering type, equipment type,
and options, and may vary by country. Other restrictions may apply.
Rates and offerings are subject to change, extension, or withdrawal
without notice.

Trademarks

developerWorks and iSeries are trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.

The e-business logo, WebSphere, Tivoli, TME, Passport Advantage, Notes,
xSeries, AIX, pSeries, RS/6000, DB2 Universal Database, DB2, ClearCase,
Rational, and CrossWorlds are registered trademarks of International
Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or
both.

Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation.

Windows and Microsoft are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Company in the United States
and other countries.

Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other
countries or both

Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service
marks of others.